The Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (Arkansas INBRE) is funded by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences under the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The IDeA program was established for the purpose of broadening the geographic distribution of NIH funding for biomedical and behavioral research. Currently NIGMS supports INBRE programs in 23 states and Puerto Rico.

The Arkansas INBRE builds on the successful Arkansas Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) program that was established in 2001 under a grant from the NIH. The Arkansas BRIN established a statewide network that links Arkansas institutions of higher education to establish a statewide infrastructure in support of a growing effort to build a biomedical research capacity in Arkansas.

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Updated 03/28/2013

2013 Summer Mentored Research Fellowship Program

We are now accepting applications for the 2013 Summer Mentored Research Program

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UAMS, NIH Effort Yields Homegrown Researchers Jan. 24, 2012 | Lindsey Dayer still recalls the thrill of injecting cells with a needle during a 2003 summer research fellowship at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).   Read more.

Christina Barnes Cooley, Ph.D., a 2002 & 2003 INBRE Summer Fellow from Hendrix College, graduated in May 2011 from Stanford University with a doctorate in chemistry. In October 2011 she began a Post Doctoral Fellowship in Dr. Jeff Kelly’s laboratory at The Scripps Research institute in La Jolla California. She is doing a chemical and molecular biology project on developing arm-selective reporters of unfolded protein response activation.

Mike Lindquist, Ph.D., a 2003 INBRE Summer Fellow from Hendrix College, graduated in May 2010 from Vanderbilt University with a doctorate in microbiology and immunology. Recently he began a National Research Council fellowship that is sponsored by the D.O.D at the United States Army Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). His project involves determining host-pathogen interactions for a number of hemorrhagic fever causing bunyaviruses.

Robyn Poerschke, Ph.D., 2004 INBRE Summer Fellow from Hendrix College, graduated in May 2011 from University of Utah, Salt Lake City with a doctorate in Pharmacology and Toxicology. In October 2011 she began a Post Doctoral Fellowship in Dr. Chris Franklin's laboratory in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at The University of Colorado in Denver.